Borg 3D color

[TheAcidisTurningOnMe]

Setup Micro-LEDs and produce an 3D images :)

[noregretsstyle]

Hope you gave the credits of the music to SGX.

The song name is "Coactive".

jamendo.com/it/artist/sgx

[marcosbonetti11]

make it really big, watch it from far away, got your first primitive real 3D TV... miniaturize it, got your next generation home user real 3D TV

[shottieflame]

this just looks like christmas lights to me

[Moercstar]

It looks so good that it becomes not nerdy at all! :-D

[freerider4316]

I want one!!XD

[metricmotors]

can you sell this?

[SlashVe]

Extremely cool!

[sd9800]

can u make me a christmas tree lol

[NewPyroLabs]

If you arent using ATmega, what controller are you using?

[theodor23]

@NewPyroLabs The common microcontrollers aren't fast enough.

We used an FPGA to (a) synthesize a soft-core to run the software generating the animations and (b) to implement a custom (kind-of) graphic-card which controls the LEDs (at some MHz "pixelclock"). The software simply writes into a 3d framebuffer; the graphics-controller continuously reads the framebuffer and toggles the LEDs accordingly.

[MaGnEtA89]

pro!!!!!

[AnubisEye009]

Resistance is futile

[alejandroengineer]

Chinics use to sell rgb leds for $0.14 but now are $0.70, I got 530 of them when they were still cheap.

[subukai]

Wicked use of an Arduino!

[ovidiupatronu]

where did you bought the microcontroller from?

[alejandroengineer]

how far apart are the leds?

[salom76033]

id like to see this on a acid trip

[vexo2fast4u]

wo kann ich denn sowas kaufen oder bekommen!?!?!?

[GrafZeppelin81]

@vexo2fast4u kommt drauf an was du mit "sowas" meinst^^

[vexo2fast4u]

jaaa, alles um so einen würfel zu bauen oder zu kaufen!^^

[lazymandoplayer]

Beautiful but I just looked up the price of the LEDs - The only place I know that does them near me charges £1.19 each (100+) which makes that novelty display £148.75 before you buy any other components ... perhaps I'll hold off on building one :o)

[toto25632]

come to Egypt i found this LEDs by 0.5 1 Egyptian pound = 0.06 GBP !! but i can't fiend the microcontroller here !! what a shit !! :D

[imperiajor]

Amazing!!! ^-^

[maciejwrotek]

for x-mas ?

[idezilla]

Very good. I like the hot-glue diffusers, good work!

[MmhGanja]

what song is it?

[tarcs]

voll geil :D

[MojitoConcord]

Sau geiles video kannst du mir vll denn elektro schaltplan für die 5x5x5 rgb leds per mail schicken des wär super

[oztonideh]

this is INSANE

[MattUK2007]

Excellent work guys.

[lynkonline]

cool

[thedrphro]

this just blew my mind i want one... NOW

[TheNuScience]

I love the very complex light tricks performed here. I actually want to make an LED cube myself but don't know what's the best way in actually starting. Can anyone help? Thanks.

[Intosia]

Learn about multiplexing :) Thats the key to led cubes. And dont start with RGB leds :P

[TechnoGuru27]

!.!.! NICE !.!.!

[ginfox91]

This is rearlly cool! i have got do start doing some electroics which i have been meaning 2 do 4 ages and learn hw 2 use my aruino. BTW what is this track called?

[jerms88]

After the first 5 seconds, I got a mental image of a bunch of break dancing borgs . . . lol

[fireballc2d]

Awesome!! Design and programming!

[littlerainpuddle]

cool. how much for it?

[Verimas]

I would have cool this also with pleasure in my room as Decoration : )

Respect

[OwenSurF]

very nice - i likeddddd

[Avionicgenius]

Dynamic lighting...my uni gave this project to some Master students to come up with a business plan. Problem is you have to sell it really cheap to compete with gadget shop, which doesn't give nice profit margins

[iIVIag1c]

dude u could make money salling a product like this but maybe not just in a cub

[10speedchris]

That is amazing. Speechless.

[Ager909]

outstanding

[bloodyvampres]

for now it looks like something from a club light show, but think of what you can do with it if you multiply the leds and make them smaller :D it will be like a projection, like in the SF films , it might even be useful as a advertising thing, like a 3D TV, all as long as the light stops scattering onto the leds that aren't active

[TerinsDerio]

If I ever found this in stores I'd buy it... instantly. great job!

[DarkDesire1974]

Very nice !

But wy did you have this cube controlled by an "FPGA emulating a ATmega microcontroller" ? You could have controlled this cube directly by an ATmega microcontroller. It probably would have been easier to program all the effects no ?

[lit42]

There is no ATmega that is fast enough to do this. Way to many bit per color channel and fps needed to see a fluent animation

[SlashVe]

@lit42

Can you explain this further?

My thoughts: an atmega can run say 25Mhz. The cube contains 125? LED's. So you have 200K atmega instruction available per LED per second. You mean to say you can't get a decent frame rate (like e.g. 50 fps) with that? What am I missing?

[aptsys]

@SlashVe Brightness control of each pixel...

[theodor23]

@SlashVe

It's a matrix display: At each point in time, only a single 2d plane is active. That way you only need 3*25=75 IO-lines for the 25 RGB LEDs in a plane. Plus 5 to activate the planes.

So you need to time-multiplex the different planes.

But that way you only have binary on/off behaviour per LED per frame. To get intermediate brightness, you only activate a LED every e.g. n-th cycle.

Long story short: IIRC the cube operates with > 50 kilo planes per second....

[DaZzA36aUsSiE]

yawn!!!

[BruzedHQ]

how much does a multi color led cost?

[freddyfcw]

1.5RMB/PC

[dubhippy]

that multi-color sphere chasing sequence around 1:50 looked extra cool.

well done all around.

[23Sh4dow]

awesome :)

[naybobdenod]

impressive

[PCsbyDesign]

this is sweet... do you have instructions on how you did this? jim

[spydude123]

SO INSAIN! I MUST HAVE!

[atechnz]

Sick bro, very cool

[jdsagecom]

where can i get one of those?

[PixelOutlaw]

Might be cool do model 3d Perlin Noise using this. If you can implement that into your software.

[DJBROS5]

how much do you want to make me one?

[Vriess1]

Very cool, I want one.

[xnitsua03x]

THIS

IS

AMAZING!!!!

*****

that would be so hard/ tedious to wire!

great job mate.

[ohhrichie]

if they used numbers, it would have been like the matrix lol

[trentc32]

i want 1 and the software please! lol...

[alidotakbari]

me too.

[jujubouy]

Well cool

[Sandett]

cool

[kazerpul]

what is name of music in this clip

[panzermort]

was the colour of the lights(lamps) done afterward could you reply

because i found this video fascinating

[MGlBlaze]

Fricking awesome.

[therealromster]

Nice how you diffuse the light like that.

[EyesOnMeStudios]

That is one Hell of an LED Matrix

[blackdogmick01]

Nice work Garry

[josuecarnivoro]

That was really cool!!!

[calenorumbero]

mass produce that shit. or i will.

[MGlBlaze]

I agree, the guy who made this should sell the plans and get this mass-produced. People would lap this right up, I think.

[bestamerica]

is that right 3 colors in one LED..

one LED with 4 wires

[DvooXdooD]

I want it. Or directions on making :D

[ExZero16]

dude can i buy one of these from you... plz

[shabam87]

This product could be big in the club, pub etc indistry!! lets hope so its realy good :D

[igcas]

Its really really cooooolllllll :)

[dennismax390]

awsome

i want one

[blakkcooper]

1st track:

jamendo com/en/album/2534 (City Lights at Night)

2nd track:

jamendo com/en/album/2534 (Biomythos)

3rd track:

jamendo com/en/album/5572 (Coactive [Malcos Slowdown Mix])

[denimjeans2007]

very cool!

led's dance :D

[veronherrera]

that's so interesting!

I love it.

[DMtactical]

If this goes on sale, I want one.

[alin0steglinski0]

ditto... id code it up so it works with iTunes and then commercialize it with the maker :D

[windoes98se]

me 2

[lennylangdon]

GREAAAT JOOOOOB!!!!!!!! u RULZ man !!!

[redliquid33]

good work...

[carrollmailcom]

They need a 20 meter cube of this at Burning Man with Dr. and Mrs. Megavolt dancing on top of it to the music.

[morrisgrill]

i want it!!!!!!!

[Huntua]

COOL that would be awsome for rave partiez

[alin0steglinski0]

what is te second song playing from 0:53 on?

[alin0steglinski0]

DISCOVERY COMPLETE!!!

Title: Coactive

Album: Chroma

Artist: SGX

AVAILABLE ON ITUNES NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[UserAndr5773]

how did u make them chanche colour and light ?

[kokaskokas]

the leds have 3 colors

[zestCC]

HELP does anyone know where i can buy a bunch of cheap mini LEDS, the hard thing is that i need at least six different colors, THANKS

[EliteMadHornet]

you buy red, green, and blue ones, then do computer programming to make multiple LEDS go off at different brightness. that is how you make more colors, its the mixture of different colors that make new colors.

[zestCC]

thanks

[BNSF5608]

Basically how a computer monitor, TV or any other projection/image producer works.

[DJBrokenHigh]

This rocks! & the music isn't half bad neither! Great vid! :)

[detoxcaso]

breakpoint rulez! i saw there :)

[indigofuzzy]

Dude, this rocks!

[voltz15]

I'd like to see a pattern with light snakes running around on this thing.

[mantzini]

Nice job!!!

What is the very first music track that plays on this video?

[mantzini]

Nevermind got it :D

[GodLikeBr4z]

id so buy 1 of these

[timothiasthegreat]

Now build it in a 3-4 foot square form with DMX control and you would have one sweet piece of stage lighting FX

[BabyCrunchBite]

you could totally sell those... id buy one for sure

[Zickenbaendiger]

PORNO

[PhazonLink96]

WTF? This isn't porno!

[kry0bas]

he means that its nice! if u think something is so damn l33t nice pro ftw... then its porno ;)

[UnrealVideoDuke]

looks pretty good.... but how can I make one??? plans??? schematics???

[TheCrow164]

OMFG the Dream of any LED Freak. I want it.

[drewlfths]

that was AWSOME!

I want one please ;-)

[jamierourketen]

resistance is futile..........

[Euzebi75]

sgxmusic chroma 2006 album

[Euzebi75]

site sgxmusic and search chroma albun 2006

[ShuChoMouff]

of course the germans would create a complex machine whose only venue of feasible operation is a lame House club.

[snoeg]

5x5x5 = 125 LEDs. Each having 3 colors, you'll need to manage 375 lines to make this happen. With PWM for brightness control. Whoa! Unless of course you "flicker" for example one layer or color at the time.. What's the secret, please? Or is it really done in "brute force"?

[coolmancool1234567]

methinks it uses a 3d array/matrix.

[biojae]

Wow, the solder joints are so clean, and I would never have thought to use hot glue sticks as diffusers Good Job!!!

[faradis81]

Good job mate!

[eoeoeo87]

this is fucking beautiful, good job !!

[s3rafin]

amazing WOW

[CamiloSanchez1979]

all you need is a pipe and some weed. XD

[Reflec999]

its not apipe... its a glue gun stick..

[seeal]

1 question who create this??? reply plzzz

[b1ll0o]

hi guys... im thinking of making one as a project. is there anyone who can help me out ? i am a beginner and i need schematics , coding and a tutorial on how to build it... anyone has enough technical knowledge to help out please?

[BeVisionaries]

I'm wondering how much you guys spent in realising this project. Cause, I'm praising the idea of making one, and I wonder how much it would cost me to build one.

Thanks to das-Labor, you made me remember the reason why I chose to be in EE. EE is sure an exciting field. You can make wonders

[chtkostucha]

I wonder to ;)

Costs of money and time ;)

[shepting]

The LEDs would likely cost around $10, and the FPGA would likely cost $90. Just a rough estimate.

It says they used the FPGA to model and ATmega which you can buy for around $6 for just processor and ~$80 for a development board.

[yuliakiki]

How Much is This Please Contact me PLEASE !!!

[BeVisionaries]

Song title pleaasee,

searched for revolution void but no avail

[lit42]

maybe you should just try again. ask $search_engine for "revolution void" (including the double quotes). maybe you should try the third hit in the google results. or any in the first ten hits the other major search engines supply you with.

For the other track, you might want to ask your favorite search engine for a combination of the strings SGX and jamendo

[LAtexStretch]

Fucking Beautiful.

I'd like to buy one but not at a ridiculous price.

Are these available to buy anywhere?

[1aMattes]

Very nice one!! I would ask some event manager to use it on their events (Techno events like Sensation White, nature one or Mayday)

[Syntax6]

Are that multicolor LED´s ?

[KB1KOI]

yes those are RGB Led's

[AdriVsl21]

please what's the song name?

[cotton509]

how do you hook up that many leds?

[petike555]

This is really cool but the grand master of this is by far the guy who did CUBITRON at burningman.!!! Take a look at that.

[marshmallower]

Oh man that is just amazing, I would love to have something like that, I love all the cool effects you can do with it.

[Chelle011]

van ANYONE help me with the name of song? (in 2nd part of video)

:)

[Slurfs]

I want to be in on this too in case anyone knows what it is ;)

[Chelle011]

damn... i got email about reply... and now this :D

[haxti]

me too. but i want to know the name of the short song @ the beginning :]

[Sjantalle]

i saw this with balloons ! or something like that

[Thrasher910]

SO AWESOME

[uktraceur]

very very nice

[spdrmnstr1]

what software did you use to produce the different affects?

[ilikefox34]

effects?

[ematti]

I guess it is his own code

[haxti]

sehr geil! Kann mir wer sagen, wie das lied gleich am anfang heißt?

[kabomf]

I want to buy one! produce! =)

[ynk98765]

werarbeit aus deutschland :D

[nitrox027]

and where did u gt the software

[lit42]

sucked it out of the brains of some very able guys - no, seriously, I'm just the guy with the video. Martin and Peter did the coding and most of the soldering. Does it answer your question?

[nitrox027]

yeah! lol i guess when i make mine i will have to rack my brain for 2 weeks

[nitrox027]

do u have a schematic

[nitrox027]

where did u get the circuit board and leds? and do u think u could sell them

[lit42]

one last time: The cube is not for sale. If Martin changes his mind, we will let you know.

all components exept the FPGA board should be available via your favorite electronics mail order or sth like that

[PeekabooLBL]

lol Can you imagine a Borg Cube inhabited only by assimilated gay men? lol It might look similar to that lol

[Nekura42]

Wow.. absolutely amazing :)

[joshig1983]

That is a wonderful idea. If that went into mass production, they could probably get 100's X 100's X 100's and would be much brighter than holograms. I have a volumetric rendering program that could be used to simulate that device so you could see how your animations would look before executing them on the LED's.

[nitrox027]

one problem is to much time to code

[joshig1983]

You don't have to spend a lot of time to code a printer, monitor, scanner to do what you want because the drivers are already made to do that process. Similarly, there must be a way to let users use a graphical interface to set up the animation and let the software handle the conversion to something runnable on that device.

[kebakent]

I could see on the video that you could light each LED individually, but I am unable to see how that could be possible myself. Would you care to elaborate on that?

And someone said that you used different frequencies to light each LED, is that different voltage in DC, or different frequencies in AC?

Sorry if my questions seems stupid to you.